here and now №1 27.05.1999 (1999)

Konstantin Totsky points out the need for the Russian border service to be present on the Tajik-Afghan border: this is the fight against drug dealers, stopping the flow of drug trafficking, and the influx of illegal migrants.

He talks about the difficulties and dangers of the service: threats from influential drug dealers, systematic shelling of the border outpost.

Live broadcast from the studio with Tajikistan: Andrey Rodionov, chief of the 13th border outpost of the Pyandzh border detachment.

He talks about the fight against smugglers, drug couriers, and arms dealers.

Plot: Tajik-Afghan border, outpost in the Pyandzh district.

Russian border guards are raised by an alarm signal, driving along the border in a car.

A dog leads them to the trail of a drug courier.

They find a batch of drugs (packets of heroin).

Live broadcast from Panj: Deputy Chief of the outpost, Senior Lieutenant Gorbachev, Sergeant Khasareev, Deputy Chief of the border outpost, Captain Mavsunov.